St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert P. McCulloch released a statement Thursday regarding reporting Grand Jury leaks on the shooting of Michael Brown.
Recently several concerns have been raised about information being “leaked” from the grand jury. First, no information or evidence has been released by the grand jury. A tweet several weeks ago claimed the author talked to a friend who is serving on the GJ about the case. That did not happen. An investigation revealed that the account had, indeed, been hacked and the origin/author of the tweet is unknown. The owner of the account has no connection with any member of the grand jury.
Second, more recent reports claim that certain testimony and documents have also been “leaked” by or from the grand jury. Even a cursory reading of the news articles reporting the information refutes that claim.
The New York Time acknowledged that they received the information in Washington, D.C. from a government official who had been briefed on the Michael Brown case. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch stated very clearly that the information and document they obtained did not come from the grand jury.
As exasperating as I and others find the piecemeal release of information and documents, no information or evidence has been released by the grand jury, any individual juror or anyone associated with the grand jury. Whoever is releasing this information is doing great disservice to the grand jury process. Additionally, anyone suggesting that the “integrity of the entire grand jury process has been destroyed” is wrong, irresponsible and does a great disservice to the public.
Robert McCulloch, St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney
Will Prosecutor Robert McCulloch bring charges against those responsible for these leaks?
If he can, I imagine the charges would be brought against officials in D.C.